Word.ws English Dictionary

goldbeating

goldbeating noun: the manufacture of gold leaf by hammering gold.

Noun

goldbeating (uncountable)

  1. The manufacture of gold leaf by hammering gold.
    • The art of goldbeating is of great antiquity, being referred to by Homer; and Pliny states that one ounce of gold was extended to 750 leaves, each leaf being four fingers square, which is three times the thickness of the ordinary leaf gold of the present time.1879, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, page 752
    • My father engaged two young guild apprentices from our neighbor's larger workshop to help transport the wooden stump, hammers, and other supplies from the goldbeating studio.2017, Laura Morelli, The Painter's Apprentice: A Novel of 16th-Century Venice, →ISBN

Forms of goldbeating

alternative formgold beating
alternative formgold-beating

Origin of goldbeating

From gold + beating.

Questions about goldbeating

What does goldbeating mean?
Goldbeating means the manufacture of gold leaf by hammering gold.
What part of speech is goldbeating?
Goldbeating is a noun.

Words near goldbeating in the dictionary

  1. goldbands
  2. goldbeater
  3. goldbeater's skin
  4. goldbeater's skins
  5. goldbeaters
  6. goldbeating
  7. Goldbeck
  8. Goldbecks
  9. Goldberg
  10. Goldberg-Hogness box
  11. Goldberg-Hogness boxes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: goldbeating (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “goldbeating.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/goldbeating. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.